Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...join in grief over the tragedy. The government will leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom of things. We ask that the independent commission of inquiry not be prejudged...
...than $5,000 for a deluxe system that combines computer, modem, printer and disc drives. Once the machinery is installed and the modem plugged in, there are hundreds of computer networks accessible by phone, from bulletin boards geared to specific machines to on-line dating services that anyone can join. The most popular pay-for-connect-time utilities, like The Source (40,000 subscribers) and Compu Serve (70,000), advertise in newspapers and computer magazines. These commercial operations offer their subscribers news, horoscopes, games and travel tips. The phone numbers of smaller systems pass by electronic word of mouth...
...President, or access to lunch at the White House mess, or to Ed Meese across a crowded room, or to those chunky little cufflinks with the presidential seal. But Washington is like other cities: the snobs reveal themselves by the clothes they wear and the clubs they join and the schools they send their children to and the company they keep and the houses they buy and the caterers they call...
Just as the whole venture seemed on the verg of collapse, eight members of a Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one-week symbolic last (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
...American companies have paid close attention to these developments. During 1982, several of the company representatives most committed to the Sullivan effort begun to discuss among themselves whether they should become more active on issues that until very recently were considered non-business matters. They sensed an opportunity to join with and contribute to the lobbying effort begun by progressive South African businesses--an effort that some American businessmen are coming to believe would be in their own long-term interests...